Also this week, my review of Hong Sang-soo’s most recent film In Another Country, starring Isabelle Huppert and Kwon Hae-hyo. It’s a deceptively light film, on the surface merely three barely-connected tales by a young screenwriter looking to calm her nerves, but it soon gives way to a perceptive look at the writing process and the perils of love and communication.

Spectrum Culture is also running a Best Comedic Performances feature, currently up to the 1950s with prior articles on the 1940s and 1930s. It’s a fun series, and a few of the blurbs are by yours truly.

Poor Jack. I think he must have had to sneak on to the set for the church scene because he really was one of those characters who are given a couple things to say only because Robards needed an adult to talk to at that moment. The woman to the left of Robards looks very familiar to me, too.